Food bank charity Trussell Trust warns rise in prices will lead to more families relying on grocery handouts
16/02/2022
Three food parcels are handed out to struggling households every minute, as Tesco boss warns worst of supermarket price rises are ‘yet to come’.
Report from pro-EU campaign group warns of significant food price rises and “devasting impact on low-income families” if good deal isn’t reached.
Government’s new fund should at least equal EU’s near £2bn, Industrial Communities Alliance says.
Home Office ministers have been criticised for not spending millions of pounds of EU funding to help tackle problems areas such as food deprivation, homelessness and child poverty.
Homelessness is already rising and experts fear a hard Brexit could severely impact those who depend on social welfare.
uthorities fear that new border checks introduced following a no-deal Brexit will slow down traffic through the nearby port of Cairnryan
THE Scottish Government has requested several changes to benefits from Westminster to prepare for a No-Deal Brexit.
“Our shelves are empty ... and at this point we are absolutely desperate for donations."
A cut in the availability of food and increase in prices, will hit 'vulnerable groups', the dossier says.
Most forms of Brexit will worsen the country’s finances and reduce space for new initiatives to address child poverty, social care and left-behind communities that some argue drove the Brexit vote, a report has found.
DWP Secretary Amber Rudd confirms Government considering food hardship fund in the event of no deal Brexit
14/03/2019
DWP Cabinet member Amber Rudd has confirmed that the Government "have been looking at the possibility of having a hardship fund" to help people cope with food price inflation in the event of a no deal Brexit.
A catalogue of errors by the Home Office has led to a loss of access to £600,000 of EU funds earmarked for the most deprived people in Britain and has put a further £2.9m at risk, it can be revealed.
Peter Burkinshaw said rough sleepers "obstruct" the streets and called for a "national solution". / A controversial UKIP election candidate has been condemned after calling for rough sleepers in Cambridge to be "rounded up and put in a camp outside the city".
Ministers are planning a “hardship fund” for Britons impoverished by a no-deal Brexit.
As the UK prepares to leave the EU, we look at Brexit's potential effect on Southeast Asian economies.
Britain leaving the EU could hit least-developed countries hard, with Cambodia most affected, report finds.
The Trussell Trust said any form of Brexit would increase the demand for food banks.
The archbishop of Canterbury has said a no-deal Brexit would hit the poorest and most vulnerable people in the UK.